Dates to forget!

The new dating series on S4C, Cinio Caru, will be showing a feast of memorable first dates - some of them full of spice and promise, while others are a complete embarrassment. We asked some of S4C's stars for stories from their own 'first dates', and heard some stories it would be better to forget!

Mark Flanagan

"When I was about 18 years old I asked this girl to go for a pint with me, and I was delighted when she said yes. But about 10 minutes after getting to the pub, her mates turned up and joined us for the night - so I had a date with her & all her friends - great! Strangely enough, I never asked her to go for a drink again".

Angharad Llwyd, actress and presenter

"I'd just started going out with this lad and it was my birthday, as so as a treat Dafydd took me out for a romantic meal at the Bull in Beaumaris. As it was one of out first dates, and I was really nervous, I started talking fifteen to the dozen. I spoke so much, with my mouth full, that I began to choke uncontrollably, so that everyone in the restaurant turned round to stare - I spent the next 15 minutes in the toliet, trying to stop choking, and calming my nerves a bit! But I can't have made too bad an impression because two years on I'm still with Dafydd!!".

Julian Lewis Jones, actor

About fifteen years ago I was living in California, and I had cousins living nearby. After a few months, one of my cousins told me that he'd met a girl from Wales, and that we should meet up for a drink one evening. I was suffering from 'hiraeth' for Wales at the time, and so I thought it was a great idea - so I went on a blind date to meet the girl in a British pub in Los Angeles. Her name was Lisa, and her only connection with Wales was that she'd been to university in Cardiff - she was English through and through and worshipped the Royal Family. We had nothing in common, and she was the last person on earth that I would want to go on a date with -and that, thankfully, was the first and last time that I saw Lisa!".

Eleri Siôn, presenter of sports programmes and the series WawFfactor

"When I was in college, I really liked this lad and so we arranged to go on a date. I drank a fair bit before meeting up with him, and as he was late turning up, I had a little bit more so that when he arrived I was quite tipsy. Our first stop was a pub with stairs leading up to it, and I fell on my face and broke my knee! So we spent the rest of the date in the hospital ... though remarkably we went out together for about four weeks after that until I broke my collar bone playing rugby - and that was enough to persuade him that I was too much of a Calamity Jane to be worth going out with! ".

Iolo Williams, presenter and naturalist

"I remember going out with a fairly posh girl from Essex - yes, such a person does exist - and having an invitation to dinner in her parents' house. I had to put on my best shirt, and I remember admiring the shining white tablecloth and all of the valuable plates on the table. The father was a bit of a pain to tell the truth, but I tried to give the impression that I really enjoyed his jokes. After the plates had been cleared, everyone was listening to another one of his jokes and after the punchline, I laughed with a mouthful of port. Because of this, the largest piece of snot I've ever seen shot across the table and landed on the spotless tablecloth in front of the mother ... They were not impressed!".

Daloni Metcalf, Ffermio Presenter

"When I started to go out with Wil, I'd arranged to meet him in the Chinese restaurant in Bangor at 9pm, straight after finishing a news programme for the BBC, with him travelling from the Llyn peninsula. I was sat there for about half an hour waiting for him. People were starting to feel sorry for me, thinking that I'd been stood up. It was utterly embarrassing, and I made all sorts of excuses on his behalf. In the end, I started worrying that he'd had an accident, and so I called his home and by about 11pm he'd arrived back. He'd been sitting in the room next door, thinking that I wasn't going to turn up! Since that night, our arrangements have been better, seeing as he's now my husband!"